Business Management

Smart Driver for Forestry Trucks training now online

MONTREAL, Que. – Forestry truck drivers are now able to take the Smart Driver for Forestry Trucks program online. The training program was developed by FPInnovations and the Office of…

TFI International brings back employees

MONTREAL, Que. – TFI International has reinstated five-day workweeks for 594 employees and rehired 793 who had been furloughed, as the trucking industry recovers from economic weakness wrought by the…

ECONOMIC WATCH: Surging Covid cases could derail economic recovery

COLUMBUS, Ind. – An escalation of new Covid cases in the U.S. is threatening to abort a nascent economic recovery currently underway, industry analyst ACT Research warns. In its Transportation…

How to drive out empty miles

It’s been the scourge of trucking for decades, chipping away at carrier revenues. Yet, many fleets don’t have reliable data on how bad the problem of empty miles is. Nor…

ECONOMIC WATCH: Canadian spot market load volumes stormed back in June

TORONTO, Ont. – Canadian spot market load volumes soared 42% in June, marking the largest ever May to June improvement in Loadlink’s history, the company reported. (Source: Loadlink Technologies) The…

TransCore rebrands as Loadlink Technologies

TORONTO, Ont. — TransCore Link Logistics is rebranding itself as Loadlink Technologies ahead of its 30th anniversary. The change comes with a new logo as well as a new corporate…

Pilot Co. announces leadership changes

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Pilot Co., the largest operator of travel centers in North America, has announced major leadership changes. The company said Tuesday CEO Jimmy Haslam will become chairman of…

Leave room to pivot, NTI tells industry

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Trucking may be struggling under Covid-19, but the industry is still “very much in a position to shine”, according to the National Transportation Institute (NTI). NTI president…

Penske doubles capacity in Hamilton

READING, Pa. — Penske Truck Leasing has opened a new full-service facility in Hamilton, Ont., almost doubling its capacity, the company announced this week. It is located at 510 South…

CTA supports CEWS updates

TORONTO, Ont. – The federal government has announced plans to extend the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) to Dec. 19, and has expanded the eligibility criteria to include all businesses…

Covid-19’s economic impact staggering, but trucking recovery underway

OTTAWA, Ont. – The financial devastation the Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking on the Canadian economy and the trucking industry is only now coming into focus – and it’s big. But…

Titanium continues U.S. expansion with Nashville brokerage

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Titanium Transportation Group has opened its second freight brokerage in the U.S., based in Nashville, Tenn. It complements the company’s first U.S. brokerage opened in Charlotte, N.C.,…

U.S. trucking industry moved 11.84B tons of freight last year

ARLINGTON, Va. – The trucking industry moved 11.84 billion tons of freight in the U.S. last year, including 67.7% of surface freight between the U.S. and Canada. That according to…

ECONOMIC WATCH: Driver shortage, low truck production to push up spot market rates

COLUMBUS, Ind. – The U.S. CARES Act is incentivizing laid-off truck drivers to stay home, and creating a driver shortage, which is pushing up spot market rates. That’s according to…

OOIDA offering course for owner-operators

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. – Aspiring owner-operators can take a three-day course, offered by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA). The course, dubbed Truck to Success, is being offered by live…